More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TACITUSThings are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
More Tacitus Quotes
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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